DNS servers assigned by Alibaba Cloud DNS
Alibaba Cloud Domain Name System (DNS) assigns two DNS servers to each user such as vip1.alidns.com and vip2.alidns.com. The following table lists the names of the DNS servers that are assigned to users of the free and paid editions of Alibaba Cloud DNS.
Alibaba Cloud DNS edition | DNS server name |
Paid edition | vip(1-8).alidns.com |
Free edition | dns(1-32).hichina.com and ns(1-8).alidns.com |
Query the DNS servers assigned by Alibaba Cloud DNS
Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Domain Name Resolution. On the page that appears, find the desired domain name and click DNS Settings in the Actions column.
View the names of the DNS servers assigned by Alibaba Cloud DNS in the section shown in the following figure.
Change the names of DNS servers
You must change the names of DNS servers at the domain name registrar.
If your domain name is registered with Alibaba Cloud, change the names of DNS servers by referring to Change DNS servers for a domain name
Note: The time when the changes take effect depends on the time-to-live (TTL) period of the DNS server names cached on local DNS servers. The default TTL period is 48 hours. For more information about how to smoothly migrate domain names, see Smooth domain name migration.